Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse: National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) officers on Tuesday knowledgeable that their focus is on horizontal drilling to rescue trapped workers contained in the Sylkyara tunnel. A complete of 41 labourers are trapped contained in the tunnel.
“NDRF teams are doing rehearsal at the site to deal with any contingency… Plan to send equipment for better communication with the trapped workers,” they stated.
“The 6-inch pipeline to be used to ensure adequate supply of food and medicine to workers trapped in Uttarkashi tunnel,” NDMA official knowledgeable.
“Different agencies like NDRF, ITBP, Army engineers, SDRF, Fire and Emergency services, BRO and other technical agencies of the GoI are working there. When a tunnel rescue takes place, it is a very challenging effort. 3-4 international experts have also come to the site. The government has made sure that wherever we have knowledge of experts, those experts have flown in and are available for advice…There is ample space inside where the workers are trapped. Survival rations, medicine and other essentials are being pushed through a compressor into the space where these workers are…,” stated Member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain.
Rescue work on the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand was nearly on maintain since Sunday because the companies concerned within the effort set themselves up for the subsequent stage — adopting a number of approaches to attain the 41 males trapped inside for every week.
Officials stated a street to the highest of the hill has been laid in a single day for digging a vertical shaft down into the tunnel.
Also, the Tehri Hydroelectric Development Corporation was set to start “micro tunneling” Sunday night time from the Barkot finish of the under-construction tunnel on the Char Dham route, a part of which collapsed on November 12.
Boring by the particles of the collapsed 60-metre stretch from the Silkyara finish was put on maintain Friday afternoon when the American-made heavy-duty auger machine encountered a tough impediment after about 22 metres. The setback compelled a rethink on Friday. Officials drew up a sequence of other plans to attain the workers trapped contained in the under-construction tunnel.
But after a go to to the location Sunday, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari stated boring horizontally by the particles with the massive auger machine appeared to be the perfect guess. He anticipated a breakthrough two and a half days.
With inputs from PTI
ALSO READ | Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Hot khichdi packed in cylindrical bottles for trapped labourers | VIDEO
